(AP) _ Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh, whose work was influenced by the National Guard campus shootings while he was a student at Kent State University in 1970, will receive a honorary degree from the school.

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AKRON: Knoxville, Tennessee's ROYAL BANGS have found a new home at Patrick Carney's Audio Eagle label. The band's debut album, We Breed Champions, will be released in May 2008, with a national tour to follow. More details to follow, but for now...

Though Robert Plant frets about "merciless repitition" when asked about the possibility of a full-fledged Led Zeppelin reunion world tour, Jimmy Page (as he has been for years) is ready to load up the private planes and hit the road according to this recent Billboard story.Speaking in Tokyo today (Jan. 28), Page said, "The amount of work that we put into the 02, both for ourselves rehearsing and also for the staging of it, was probably what you'd put into a world tour anyway."

He noted that Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant "also has a parallel project running [with Alison Krauss], and he's really busy with that project, certainly until September. So I can't give you any news on anything at the moment." .

Though former Cantonian Marilyn Manson may be still in the midst of a lawsuit with former keyboardist Stephen Bier (a.k.a Madonna Wayne Gacy), who filed a $20 million lawsuit against him in August, fans attending the sold out Feb. 3 show at The House of Blues (what, he can't fill the Wolstein center anymore?) will be pleased to hear the following from a press release.

The duo that started it all, are back together to finish where they left off.